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  2. Carrot - Wikipedia

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    "Eastern" (a European and American continent reference) carrots were domesticated in Persia (probably in the lands of modern-day Iran and Afghanistan within West Asia) during the 10th century, or possibly earlier. Specimens of the Eastern carrot that survive to the present day are commonly purple or yellow, and often have branched roots.

  3. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    They consist of flax, three cereals and four pulses, and are the first known domesticated plants in the world. Although domesticated rye (Secale cereale) occurs in the final Epi-Palaeolithic strata at Tell Abu Hureyra (the earliest instance of a domesticated plant species), it was insignificant in the Neolithic Period of southwest Asia and only ...

  4. List of domesticated plants - Wikipedia

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    Places, where crops were initially domesticated, are called centers of origin. This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans. The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as larger formal and informal botanical categories which include at least some domesticated individuals.

  5. Timeline of food - Wikipedia

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    13,000 BCE: Contentious evidence of oldest domesticated rice in Korea. [11] Their 15,000-year age challenges the accepted view that rice cultivation originated in China about 12,000 years ago. [ 11 ] These findings were received by academia with strong skepticism, [ 12 ] and the results and their publicizing has been cited as being driven by a ...

  6. Origins of agriculture in West Asia - Wikipedia

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    Before their domestication, domesticated plants and animals were exploited in the form of gathering and hunting, with the methods and techniques required for domestication already known at the end of the Palaeolithic. Between 9500 and 8500 B.C., “pre-domestic” forms of agriculture were introduced; plants still had a wild character, but ...

  7. Researchers discover what makes carrots orange - AOL

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  8. History of plant breeding - Wikipedia

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    Domestication of plants is an artificial selection process conducted by humans to produce plants that have more desirable traits than wild plants, and which renders them dependent on artificial usually enhanced environments for their continued existence. The practice is estimated to date back 9,000–11,000 years.

  9. How did a carrot logo become shorthand for the future of ...

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    Tyler, the Creator. In 2014, tensions started to bubble and egos began to clash. Chalk it up to creative differences, except the fact that it hurt more because these were Carrots’ close friends.